SIX FLAGS SAFARI TIMINGS DRIVER

Once Six Flags builds out Camp Adventura more, I think they’ll hear better comments/reviews about that. It is so great to see them in their “natural habitat” and definitely a unique experience. The animals all look happy and don’t seem afraid of the people or the trucks. I really liked the new format of the safari and I think the fact that it is included with standard admission is a great value. They would probably have more success with the area that way. It’s actually too bad they couldn’t put Camp Adventura at the end of the safari as your final stop. All in all we were at the stop for probably about 15 minutes before we ran out of things to do and hoped back on a truck to continue the safari. They are also in the process of building a zipline ride – I think that will help visitors be less bored in this area. There are employees all around holding different snakes and parrots – things like that. They are all so cute so it’s hard to decide who gets it! They take your picture while you are feeding them and if you want you can go back inside to the building to buy a copy. An employee will give you an ice cream cone to feed them. All the way in the back there is an area where you can pay $5 per person to feed the giraffes (although it looks like this is only open at set times during the day 11:30a and 2:30p so if you don’t get there around one of those times you will not be able to feed them). On the other side of the building is a small food stand and a few picnic tables. There is a small building that has a few reptiles in tanks – snakes, lizards, a sloth. Camp Adventura has potential, however it is not ready to the point that it should be yet especially if they are making it a required stop. If you had a great seat, you now had to give it up and hope that you got a good seat on the next truck as well.

It caused some confusion because up until the time we pulled in, no one knew there was a stop that involved switching trucks. Now I knew about this because I read it online, but others did not know in advance which I didn’t think was necessarily fair to the guests. Halfway through the safari, they do stop at an area called Camp Adventura where they tell you that everyone has to get off the truck.

SIX FLAGS SAFARI TIMINGS DRIVER

If something really exciting was going on (ex: a baby bear cub was showing off to us) the driver would stop for a little longer so people could continue to watch before having to move on. We saw a great variety of animals, some already extinct in the wild, others close to. The tour guides were great – shared lots of great information, were upbeat and friendly. The open air trucks made it feel like you were at a real safari in some of the countries you visited. I liked being able to spend my time looking around at animals vs the old method of having to drive myself, concentrating on the road. The new safari was really enjoyable! The trucks are pretty big – I think about 6 rows of 5 seats. They had a separate platform and trucks just for Flash Pass guests. The wait in Flash Pass line was only about 20 minutes. Thank god we had the Flash Pass because I overheard the wait was already 2 hours. by the time we arrived at the entrance to the safari. As I said it took us an hour total to check in so it was 11:30 a.m. Also we heard that it takes about an hour and a half to do the safari so we wanted to do that first so the rest of the day could be spent on rides. We started our day with the safari first because they close earlier than the rest of the park.

The only option is to go in the safari truck. Note that you can no longer drive your own car through the safari as other posters have said below. My husband and I visited the new safari tour at Six Flags over the weekend.

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